People of the Storm God - Travels in Macedonia (Paperback)

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"Macedonia is a problem. It is such a problem that the French named
fruit salad after it: macedoine des fruits. Four wars have been
fought over it in the last eighty years, each bloodier than the
previous one. They were fought to determine not only where exactly
Macedonia is, but who lives there and in what state they should
live." With this sense of historic complexity in mind, Will Myer
travelled to the troubled Balkans in autumn 1994 and the following
spring. His aim was to discover the political and human reality of
a region beset by conflict and controversy, fought over for
centuries by rival powers. In particular, he sought to explore the
true nature of Macedonian identity, or rather of a multiple
identity. Travelling in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and the newly
independent Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Myer encounters
a bewildering array of political and cultural opinions--Orthodox
Christians and Muslims, Communists and nationalists, warlords and
modernisers. His investigations take him to Orthodox weddings and
Easter parades, political meetings and religious ceremonies. He
encounters widows and witches, dervishes and mystics. Throughout,
he remains fascinated by the human dimension of Macedonia's
deep-seated identity crisis. More than a simple travelogue, People
of the Storm God casts light on the troubled history of Macedonia
and its unique melting pot of politics, religion and ethnicity.
Compared to the work of Patrick Leigh Fermor, this book evocatively
reveals the extraordinary cultural diversity of the Balkans and the
weight of history borne by its different peoples.